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Bartee's comments
Posted Wed, Jan 18, 3:28 p.m.
The income tax is not impossible to sell. If someone would propose a constitutional amendment for an income tax that also banned the state (but not counties and cities) from collecting a sales tax, it might get through. Telling someone in Seattle that their sales tax would drop from 9.5% ...
MOREPosted Fri, Sep 2, 1:22 p.m.
Pythagoras wrote: "Oreskes and Conway demonstrate that the methods used were the same as used with the debate over the science of DDT, second-hand smoke, and acid rain." I might be missing your point. It seems to me in all three of these examples the remedies got way too far ...
MOREPosted Sun, Oct 17, 9:34 p.m.
"Homeowners can deduct up to $1 million annually for their mortgage payments." You are misstating this. Homeowners can deduct the INTEREST on up to a $1 Million mortgage (plus the interest on another $100K home equity). That means closer to $60,000 can be deducted. If the Bush tax cuts expire, ...
MOREPosted Wed, Jun 23, 4:57 p.m.
I like how David Brewster suggests deregulating parking so that the market will decide how much parking we're willing to pay for, and then suggesting a high parking to tax to make sure we end up with the amount of parking David thinks we should have. Sounds contradictory to me.
MOREPosted Fri, Dec 26, 4:24 p.m.
It's very easy to pile on Frank Blethen and the Seattle Times these days, but I can tell you as a 20 year (unaffiliated) employee he deserves some credit. He has followed his mission of exceptional journalism rather than the big profit, and he has also focused on local family ...
MOREPosted Fri, Dec 26, 4:22 p.m.
I'd like to emphasize an early comment: Thanks for saying what we've all been thinking.
MOREPosted Tue, Mar 4, 9:32 p.m.
Tax all roads: Is it fair to tax only users of 520 orI-90 by putting tolls on them? If the state is responsible for maintaining roads, user fees should pay for all roads. Want to charge big gas guzzlers more? That's why the gas tax makes so much more sense. ...
MOREPosted Thu, Aug 16, 4:39 p.m.
Book value: Any reporting showing a decline in book value is misleading to anyone who doesn't have an accounting background because it reflects historical cost, rather than market value. If I had bought a rental house in Seattle in 1975 for $50,000 ($40,000 for the building and $10,000 for the ...
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